The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-05-28
Personal.

l.. B. bennett will deliver the Memorial
Day address at Buxton.
L. l.. Walton of Skowhegan will be the
Memorial Day orator at Bingham.
Rev. A. w. Pottle has been very cordially
received by his new parishioners at Saco
Mrs. Fessenden, mother of Hon. Nicholas
Fessenden of Fort Fairfield, will spend the
summer in Portland.
Rev. DIR. Thomas Hill, ex-president of
Harvard College, was guest at the Uni
tartan festival in Boston, Thursday.
Sarah l.. Wetherbee of Maine graduated
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
in Boston, Thursday.
Rev. w. G. Barrows Of South Paris has
received a cal from church in Providence,
R. l.
Mr.. Seth L. Larrabee has been invited to
deliver the Grafton July 4th, and has ac-
cepted.
Dr. G. w. Martin of Augusta will spend
the summer in Europe, visiting the hospitals
in England and on the Continent
Rev. A. II. Milliken of Bar Mills, having
accepted call from the North Lebanon
church, will enter upon his pastoral labors
the first of June
ID. A. Brick Of Hotel Dewitt, Lewiston,
was elected Vice President for. Maine of the
Hotel Mems Association, at the recent meet
ing at Washington, d. c.
Rev. A. j. Rackliff, pastor of the Congre-
gationalist church of Skowhegan, has been
granted a leave of absence until Sept. list,
1888, on account of i'll health.
Manager Payson Tucker has appointed
Scion Cahill station agent at Brunswick.
Mr.. Cahill recently resigned his position as
conductor on the Pullman train.
Mr. Harry L. Bascomb, the veteran actor,
who is remembered here on account of his
connection with the old Portland Museum,
has become an inmate of the Edwin Forrest
Home at Philadelphia.
Nathaniel L. Thompson, Jr., OF Kenne-
bunk, has been appointed railway postal
clerk in place of Samuel Dingley, Jr., of
Sebago; and j S. Bradbury of Charlestown.
Mass, in place of G. L, Mildram of Wells.
Fever has made sad havoc in the bark
Coryphene on the voyage from New York to
Hong Kong. CAPTAIN George GEM and
Mate John w. Pillsbury have died of it.
Both were of Bucksport.
The Dexter Eastern State announces tina
two Dexter ladies of well known ability
Mrs. Fannie B. Damon and Mrs. Mary v
Pierce, are to begin the publication of a
literary magazine in that town some time in
the early part of June.
Frank E. Brown, son of ex-Chairman
Brown of the Democratic State Committee,
has been promoted to be clerk in charge of a
postal car, and E. w. Hanks of Augusta to
the second class clerkship made vacant by
Browns promotion.
The Knox County Medical Association
have chosen DR.. Leyensaler delegate to the
American Medical Association, which meets
in Chicago in June; and Drs. Banks. John
b. Walker, L. l.. Estabrook and Hitchcock.
delegates to the International Medical Con-
gress, which meets in Washington in Au-
gust.
Hon. S. W. Matthews says in the Aroos-
took Republican of this week: 'sWe called
on Mr.. Blaine day or two ago. He had
just come in from ride, and, SO far as we
could see, is enjoying excellent health. He
expects to take steamer for England June
'Sth, and will spend year in the British
Isles and on the continent. Mr.. Blaine saws
he will not visit Europe on account of his
health, but as vacation trip and to see
lands and peoples he has long desired to see.
He will be accompanied only by members of
has family, the reports that Mr.. Manley and
others are going with him being canards."